The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-27

wALSUT-soME OF THE DISADVANTAGES OF
RArLRoADs-GIRLs ON A BOOM THIS YEAR
THE NICKLE-PLATED MAN - MEMPHIS
sCHooLs-rHE FARMRR's FRIEND.
SDos, MISS, July II, 1887.
If there is anything more convenient
than a railroad, l do not know what 1t Is,
unless it is little niger" Sidon has
the railroad now, and the other convience,
too, yet she is not perfectly happy Of late
she is entering upon the marts of the world
"a shipping point for black walnut.
Daily the great logs are brought by the OK
teams and sent forward TO market. Yet, to
some, the railroad is more than useless-a
nuisance A few days since party of
gentlemen passed through grove near
planters house. The old man was sitting
in the shade with his gun on his knee, look
ing lugubrious and gruesome.
whats the matter, Colonel r inquired
the foremost horsesman.
"What's the matterH Enough's the matter.
That 1. C. set are going to build another
branch road through Lefore county. 1t
will run me wild. They'll want right of
way through my place. They'll want to
cut down all my timber. They'll kill all
my stock. They'll whistle me out of the
| country. can't tell what they won't want.
I'll take my rifle and defend myself"
sBut you certainly don't think, Colonel.
You must favor the railroad. 1t has en-
HANGED the value of your lands four-fold,
and as to timber, you have been cutting it
down, deadening and burning it for years."
"No, sir; it has ruined me. l have to
spend half my time in the woods. 1t
| brings newspapers here, and my wife reads
about the booms and iron fortunes, and
| then she lights into me because did not
discover Birmingham and own 1t. Then,
railroad fellow passes along In private
car, and she gets mad with me because 1
do not own Pullman. Then here comes
whole raft of fashion books, plates and
bonnet pictures. Then l am called an old
| antediluvian Nimrod-an old Rip Van
| Wrinkle. Well, l wish she had never seen
New Orleans, and all its gewgaws 4; we
might still be happy at home. Now all IS
misery The family wants are growing, and
can't be supplied. When she went to New
Orleans she heard Joe Jefferson play Rip
| Van Wrinkle, and learned to express herself
very fiuently, more so than is comfortable,
at times. So, l hide out. Now l saw
those fellows coming up the field yonder,
and am sitting for them"
The supposed surveyors reached the
scene, and proved to be party returning
from fishing excursion. The Colonel
quieted down, and after some conversation
on general topics, asked:
Hear anything Of the branch road from
] Cruger through by Shell Bluff and Roebuck
Lake, lately ?'
Nothing" replied one of the party. 81
suppose they will not build it now. That
| Interstate Commission has ruined that
enterprise"
| The old man forgot his animosities.
That's pity. just such legislation will
ruin this country. Why, sir, that road
would have been worth millions to the
county +; millions, 1 say. 1t was the grand
est enterprise of the age opening up this
valley to the world. 1t is a burning
shame. I'll give them right of way-tim-
Der for ties, and everything else | can to
aid them
All agreed with the old gentleman, that
as the road was not coming, it would have
been magnificent thing.
Well, the schools are out, and the girls
are at home again. Great heroines they are,
too. Some have graduated and some are
/ going back, and some came home just be-
fore Commencement, to avoid examination,
but all are happy, for holiday girls are
privileged characters. They come smiling
and blushing, and giggling home, the
this year. They smile to the Spiders" who
J look more spidery than ever and bow 70
Chesterfield, for they feel great respect
for the girl of the present. Even the boy
on the cars, who hands around chewing
gum, is little coy and shy about handing
it to this brainy representative of her sex
She does not walk on the bias, but comes
straight into the car and takes her seat
She has not ruffie or puff on her dress
She has no slip-shod slippers, no Mother
Hubbards and wrappers in her trunk
"what must be her ideas of comfortf y
asks some of her less energetic sex. Ye
there is dash and breeziness which il
quite charming. Young "Spider" does no
like her. He says he can't fathom her
says she looks like ten double rows o.
straight seams to him. That she dom
know slang enough to be interesting. Tha
she talks to him about modern improve
ments and sun-spots, tides and air currents
She seems to dote on molecules and resc
: tionary powers. She thinks Prof. Brown
divineiy metaphysical, Prof. Smith tot
: transcendantly lovely for anything, Prof
Jones is profoundly hydraulic, while Prof
Some -body-else, equally eminent, is sub
stratum and crustaceous to the last degree
Young Spider also says he never couls
, bear angles and hypothenuses and theo
| rems. He thinks the girls are being edu
j cationally ruined, and it does look like it
But there is no need of being uneasy. s.
long as there is boy there will be gir
who will be devoted to him, whether he ha
brains or not. Call up the past to prov,
the present and foretell the future by it. /
: it not SO
Spider is but the type of his race, and h
knows that nickle-plated man will shin
as brightly in the social circle, as res
I gold one. And it is well that it is so, fo
, what would become of the world nova
: DAYS il the nickles did not pass current
/ for gold coin is SO scarce. A prett
! woman knows her time is never out, an
: she can successfully play her several roles
: She likes admiration, and she will be drs
matte enough to oblige Spider and secur
: it. She will please him if she has to b
stereotyped, bronzed and painted Ez
!, treme in womankind are needed to max
e sensations. So soon as the bloom of earl
q girlhood is all rubbed of she is ready TO
g the fray. She is dashing then and arch (i
!. her eyebrows, of course1. She is not i'm
e pulsivs or enthusiastic, but clever and pro:
= pective. She is artfully artless and arr
n lessly artful. There is not more SUE
!. cessful linguist in the world when the lar
n guage is that of the eyes, She knows a
Il the moves OF Lle IA1 0iKtdtlOD 70 perez
Ition, and the graces of the handkerchief
She knows every rule in loves symps
thetic algebra by heart, and applies ther
with skin to unknown quantities. She he
studied human equation and knows rati
and interest to perfection She use
4 them as the Spartans did their lances-ur
3, erringiy. When necessary she hates sue
o vulgarisms as Science and History, know
+ nothing about Greek further than it II
.. lates to her nose detests molecules, mt
u nads and creeping things; abhors 'ologis
It and isms, and means to honor and ODE
+ the man whom she loves, and she win d
l. it for the heart is not so critical an
y choice IS the brain lin regard to the ma
= who loves her). Eut she has arrived at thl
q age TINT there Is one thing she viii not
: for him. No, Spider, do not expect j
s The sacrifice would be too great She vi
3 not wear = bonnet two weeks behind Il
= style-no, not to win even thy glorious lov
s She must be the very latest
Z And, after all, our girls are great girl
g and our State Is doing noble thing fc
. those Who wiz avail themselves of the ol
y portunities placed within their reach. Al